Grand Isle – Rebuilding on Geosynthetic Tubes

After four years and four hurricanes, Grand Isle, Louisiana is rebuilding with a focus on tourism. It’s all being enabled with the help of geosynthetic tubes. To protect the island from future storms, the state and federal governments are spending millions on new drainage pumps and 30-feet-in-circumference geosynthetic tubes within and along the 6.5-mile levee system. The tubes are filled with compacted tubes and designed to keep the levees weighted down enough to survive future storms.